Dr Victoria Cox

Medical doctor, PhD researcher, community health advocate, and record-breaking open water swimmer.

Victoria is a medical doctor and a PhD research student at the Menzies School of Health Research in the Northern Territory. She graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School before reading for an MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation at the University of Oxford as a John Monash Scholar. Her work in the Northern Territory is focused on tropical skin disease and how best to implement community skin health programs in remote Aboriginal communities across northern Australia. Victoria successfully co-authored a submission to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to include ivermectin as a first-line treatment for scabies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. She will spend 2025 working with the Director of Global Health Dermatology at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as a Fulbright Scholar.

Beyond her work at the hospital, Victoria is an accomplished sportswoman who made history as the first Australian to complete the ‘Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming’ within a single season—achieved in just 2 months and 2 days in 2017 (including the 34km English Channel, 33km Catalina Channel, and 46km 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Marathon Swim). While at Oxford, she broke several university swimming records and earned a Full Blue. After many years patrolling with Glenelg Surf Life Saving Club, she was deterred from continuing her open water pursuits in the NT after witnessing too many croc bite injuries! These days, if she’s not at the hospital, you’ll likely find her surfing the waves at Komune in Keramas.

Meet our Ambassadors

Glyn Scott

Founder, Love Hope & Gratitude Foundation, 2024 SA Senior Australian Of The Year Nominee

Glyn Scott survived years of violence and sexual abuse – first as a child and later in her first marriage. In 2006, Glyn gave evidence to the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry about her childhood experience of sexual abuse.

Alexandra Seal

Young Citizen of the Year 2024

Alexandra is a dedicated and passionate advocate for social justice, community service and environmental sustainability, demonstrating active citizenship and enhancement of community life through various platforms, both within and without her school.

Kylan Beech

Young Citizen of the Year 2024

Just before Kylan Beech’s 14th birthday, he lost his mother, Tammy, to cancer. Rather than focusing on his grief, Kylan became determined to help ensure others would not have to experience the same tragedy.

Stella Braund

Mental Health and Social Justice Advocate and nominee for South Australian of the Year 2024

Stella Braund uses her lived experience of childhood domestic violence and sexual assault -at home and in institutional settings – to improve people’s lives.

Nasir Hussain

Diversity Advocate & President of Muslim Australian Connections of South Australia

Since migrating to Australia in 2006, Nasir has devoted himself to building bridges between Muslims and the wider Australian society.

Dr Felicity-ann Lewis

Community Leader & 2014 SA Australian of the Year

A dedicated, dynamic leader, Dr Felicity-ann Lewis is passionate about creating a better, healthier, more inclusive Australia
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